The hard-fought USMCA may be in effect, but that doesn’t mean all is well in North America
of Illinois, are urging the Mexican government to ensure that Mexican states are following the country’s new labor law so that Mexican workers can organize independent unions and have representation without fear of arrest.
“If state governments in Mexico are able to willfully violate basic labor rights, we will urge USTR to swiftly and forcefully utilize the rapid response system in order to ensure Mexican compliance with the agreement,” the lawmakersIn recent weeks, Democrats have expressed concern that the case of Susana Prieto Terrazas, a Mexico labor rights activist who was wrongfully imprisoned by the state government of Tamaulipas, shows Mexico is not fully delivering on its promise to uphold its labor commitments. The lawmakers explained that, so far, it appears that conservative governors along the U.S.-Mexico border are “now using political persecution to intimidate workers and their advocates” and that the Prieto case is “not unique.”U.S. and Chinese officials did not meet over the weekend for a planned six-month review on their phase one trade deal. Instead, both sides have indefinitely postponed the compliance review between Lighthizer, Liu and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin,One source familiar with the plans told Reuters that U.S. officials wanted to give China more time to increase purchases of U.S. goods agreed to in the deal to improve the optics of the meeting. Another said it stemmed from a scheduling conflict and was not because of any problem with the trade deal. China is not on track to meet its target on purchases of U.S. energy, services, and farm and manufactured goods as agreed in the deal. But officials have expressed optimism that Beijing’s purchases will pick up as it recovers from the pandemic’s economic fallout.Trump on Friday reiterated that the trade deal was “doing very well.” And a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said on Friday that China had been “fulfilling its commitment in real earnest” to ensure implementation. But Zhao noted that the pandemic and certain U.S. restrictive measures have had an impact on China’s ability to import certain goods and services. “We hope the U.S. will stop restrictive measures and discriminatory practice against Chinese companies to create conditions for implementing the phase one trade deal,” Zhao said at a Foreign Ministry news conference.An upcoming election for Latin America’s top development bank could hint at how U.S. allies are reading the 2020 presidential polls. Trump’s pick to run the Inter-American Development Bank is forcing countries across the region to decide whether to support the U.S. choice without knowing whether Trump or Joe Biden will be president next year. The vote on the next president of the IDB is currently scheduled for September, just seven weeks before the U.S. election. “If Trump loses, why allow him to impose his imprint on the region by electing someone that represents the Trumpian vision of the Americas?” said Mark Feierstein, a former national security adviser on Western Hemisphere affairs during the Obama administration.The British public is largely supportive of global trade deals, but a growing number think they will lead to lower-quality goods in the U.K., according to a massiveAn increasing number of people also believe that the deals won’t add jobs to the U.K. economy, and few think they will lead to higher wages, the survey found.The share of people who think trade deals will result in lower-quality goods and services in Britain grew 5 percentage points compared with a survey conducted just five months earlier. The data was sampled from 2,349 respondents last spring and summer and builds on the first wave of the survey conducted in late 2018.British citizens are most concerned in U.S. negotiations about protecting the BBC and the National Health Service, with maintaining food standards second, and creating new jobs next. The major concern when it came to China was maintaining product standards .An unprecedented campaign season, demands an unconventional approach to news coverage. POLITICO Minutes is a new, interactive content experience that reveals the top takeaways you need to know in an easy-to-digest, swipeable format delivered straight to your inbox. Get a breakdown of what's been learned so far, why it matters, and what to watch for going forward.— U.S. agrees with Mexico and Canada to extend a ban on non-essential travel at land borders until at least Sept. 21 in response to the pandemic,
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